The YouTube of Sonic the Hedgehog (Zero Punctuation) 

I love that "RU-vid" being used as a swear is catching on

@@nicolasjamo maybe one day we'll reach the point where, like in one of Yahtzee's books, mathematical terms will be used as swear words.

God damn it, RU-vid

Jesus YouTubing christ, RU-vid has gone full YouTubing RU-vid! What the RU-vid is wrong with these RU-vids?!

What the actual fuck? There are so damn many true crime channels that talk about murder? This fucking “advertiser friendly” shit is absurd. There are literal Nazis on this platform. But the figurative murder of a fictional cartoon hedgehog is a bridge too far?? Like, I kind of get that they made you guys go back and censor Yahtzee’s use of the N word in early 2010’s episodes. Fair enough. But this is just silly.

I myself prefer The RU-vid on the Nile. The RU-vid’s in the Rue Morgue also seems quite good.

As an RTGame viewer, I just assumed Yahtzee was yet another content creator who'd started using RU-vid as an insult.

@@hoodiesticks according to this videos own comments, they started this “trend” if you call it that, years ago. Honestly who cares tho.

A RU-vid of Crows lol

I also thought this was an RTGame refrance/callout

now i wanna see yahtzee hit the yoink

Sounds a little sexual to me for some reason.

Okay so it's not just me. Weird.

The algorythm giveth and the algorythm taketh, I suppose.

He should really review the new xenoblade games since he liked x and it's probably the worst one.

honestly being a lore consultant seems like a legitimate job for any series long enough in the tooth that your fanbase will get upset if you haven't spent a weekend spelunking into various wikis You keep the story straight for the people who care and the people who don't... don't care either way!

​@@edfreak9001 Couldn't agree more. Specially for Sonic, since i know VERY well how this franchise can be so inconsistent and confusing in terms of lore/story and characther writing. Thankfully now since Frontiers, mostly thanks to Ian Flynn; they actually care to organize everything and make all related Sonic media being unified.

@@edfreak9001 this is true, warhammer 40K loremasters are in high demand in the job market nowadays

@@edfreak9001 Yeah I agree Lore Consultant does actually sound like a great job idea for a long running series Hell i'd love to do it, I can memorize lore so well I wonder why my memory is so terrible everywhere else

Fkn corpos

The saga continues.

don't forget the rpg boss battle against the evil murderous doctor

Not even like anime pigeons, straight up PNGs of pigeons

​@@Kuraerisu That game was great. I bought it because "Girl dating photo-realistic pigeons" is hilarious (especially when you can also see them as dreamy anime boys), but was actually impressed with the story, which went way deeper and darker than I was expecting.

Loss, youth, government corruption, sounds like a perfect combination if I ever heard one

His game, hatfall has a reference to it as well.

And just like a class clown/party animal, give him a bit of encouragement and he will go back to his old ways, it happened before with Sonic and it can certainly happen again (Sega is a mix of M. Night Shyamalan and George Lucas, not evil but stupid and baffling decisions all in once)

​@@petarpoljak6918 Anything's possible, but the reason why I have faith in the current Sonic staff is because they've really been trying since the 30th anniversary to be consistent. Add to that, I think the success of Frontiers has shown Sega to finally trust Sonic Team's instincts when it comes to handling the franchise. So long as they allow folks like Tyson Hesse, Ian Flynn, Kishimoto, and Christain Whitehead, etc. to play to their strengths, we shouldn't see as many embarrassments as we used to.

@@DTFauxClassicSonic Frontiers was overrated beyond all belief. Such fanfare for an OK game, my friend said it the best "if every game in the last 10 years is shit, an OK Game will be gold in the eyes of Sonic s****."

@@petarpoljak6918 I mean, we can hash out whether Frontiers' praise is deserved or not, but my overall point is that the franchise is fairing better when passionate artists and devs are in charge. You can see across all the mediums (including social) that Sonic is moving past the post-'06 era of an over-reliance on meta humor, irony poisoning, and self-deprecation. There's still some of that, but way more weight being put into sincerity (which we see shine with this new visual novel), and the fans are loving it.

Was especially nice to get a few less common characters in there, like Espio and Blaze. Espio especially has gotten like zero screentime since Sonic Heroes (even Vector had Free Riders and an episode of Sonic Boom). But even stuff with how Shadow acts around Amy and Tails (and guest) without Sonic there to spark him was nice to see.

I would absolutely be down with more character interactions as firends with the Sonic cast. Maybe a future Sonic game could look into that as side content or mini games in between the main game. Like, Sonic could move to the next level or area, but if he shares a milkshake with Knuckles or goes to the gym with Shadow their friendship bond ranks up so maybe he should do that first.

@@Tuss36 Thanks to SaltyDkDan, Espio and Vector as a committed gay couple is now an accepted headcanon of mine.

It was this and the art style for me

@@gregvs.theworld451 Espio is in a relationship with Vanilla

THIS!

And not too far away from the actual gameplay of DbD

im pretty sure the issue is yahtzee just doesnt like sonic

His point was you either make it ridiculous, or you make it an actual good game. They did neither.

@@OrangeDog20 the game is good, though. if you go into it just expecting a lighthearted visual novel where you get to see some characters hanging out in a casual setting instead of "joke game where sonic actually dies for real" then it's a genuinely nice experience.

@@alicebnuuy6155 not in his opinion, as detailed in this video. He went through all the gameplay and how it all sucked.

@@OrangeDog20 yahtzee can and has been wrong before, the games 98% rating on steam shows its good and people love it

@@OrangeDog20 I'm inclined to side with Alice and Popchip here, for a visual novel it was surprisingly solid and had more effort put in than a Sonic visual novel has any right to have. If visual novel's aren't Yahtz thing or he's not a good judge of them, he could dislike the game but that doesn't mean he's the de facto judge of it's quality, it's just his opinion.

sound like a phase cuz someone never change.

This has to be one of the best Yahtzee line deliveries ever. I burst out laughing when he said that

@@MoskalMedia true.

😂

Can't blame him for wanting actual murder from the murder game but it was pretty cute to watch these characters hanging out

@@twilightvulpine If you were actually expecting that, you're the April Fool.

@braystar8578 Yeah imagine expecting the AAA publishers actually releasing something worth playing. Can't let that happen.

Oh yeah, there's definitely gonna be some retcons and plotholes, but I suspect the end goal is to consolidate as much of the stories into one timeline. Not unlike the Zelda games which only really started leaning into the "Zelda timeline" around TP or SS.

I guess the way to deal with that would be to say that the Blaze in the future is the Blaze of Sonic's World, whereas the Blaze in Rush is Blaze from the Alternate dimension. But even not only is it very "overly convenient", it gets trickier when you introduce Silver into the mix and his future appearances along with Blaze (stating they both come from another dimension?). I mean Sonic 06 pretty much yeets itself out of canon with the ending erasing all the events in the game. Which is unfortunate because some character development (mainly Shadow) was pretty good in that game (is that why he's back to being an edgy son of a hog in future games?).

Shoutouts to Eggman Nega being from Blaze's Dimension NOPE he was lying, he's from Silver's future and that HAS to be canon because otherwise Silver has no First Appearance.

reasonable tbh, sonic as a character is incredibly annoying and it's made worse by how everyone around him seems to love him

Amy was too gleeful for that to actually have happened. But I gotta say the extent to which they almost killed him was more than I thought they would dare to.

But if you're always watching them a week late, aren't you still just watching the videos at the same interval as everyone else, but a week forward?

@@maudlife Well yeah, but that also means it's another week between any hype-trains the game might have had, or controversies it spawned. Like when he did that new Harry Potter game people were flipping their crap over, it had all but entirely died down by the time I saw the review, so I barely had to hear about it at all.

That sounds like some real lame shit guy.

@@062843403 ?????

@@062843403 Jesus there's a lot to unpack here. The dude has a point, what are you on about?

The title shows up before the description. The title is misleading. Therefore, any understanding of the game will be disappointing. And they knew what they were doing when they picked the title, the intention being to get people to think they did something novel and gutsy, but actually didn’t at all

@@VideoGuy232 "The title is misleading. Therefore, any understanding of the game will be disappointing" That's a baresurface level way to view literally anything, the tittles of most things don't refer to the game in any literal form and would by this metric be misleading. What a roundabout way to cherry pick blame.

Sega should team up with Nintendo for a Detective Tails and Detective Pikachu crossover.

@@ferdinandavila-soto7233 Here me out: Sonic & Rayman - Railway Detectives. Get the spotlight back from those damn Rabbids.

Agreed

@@lnsflare1 Better yet, make it a 2D platformer, like Rayman Origins and Legends, with the same art style as those two games.

Yeah I don't know what Yahtzee was expecting. Because when I saw the title and the trailer, I knew EXACTLY what I was in for, and the game delivered

​@@paultapping9510 that's better than many other people who think critics should only review games they like.

@@Gothstana or the old “reviews should be objective”, completely missing the point that a review relies on the subjectivity.

My thoughts exactly

Nope. They did this a few years back, and it's been an occasional gag ever since

Bold of you to assume he wouldn't eviscerate all three

That assumption is have nowhere in the original comment. It says *at least* 2. Yes, I'm fun at parties.

The assumption that there's only 3 games......

I honestly kind of want to see it, cos I love those games but Jesus H do they have issues...

@@vigorouslethargy Yahtzee would never touch Ultra Despair Girls or Danganronpa S with a ten-foot pole

I want the next a final game to be titled Of Rings and Hedgehogs

totally true.

100%

And yet people are still throwing a hissyfit about this 😅

Franchise is large enough a gaiden game like that wouldn't be out of place. Plus we've already seen a sloppily botched RPG game in the series, thanks Bioware. It can only improve with this.

Wow, what an original joke...... "Sonic games bad, right guys?"

@@dimitridsmoreira Who's joking?

@@dimitridsmoreira I reread what I wrote and still don't understand what made your butt fall out unless you own unvested Sega stock or something. I didn't even say sonic games are bad. I said that I thought that that's what this video was going to be about. Calm down, fanboy.

​@@JohnSmith-vb5ze Oh sorry, i am just so used to people making jokes and shitting on this franchise and not presenting an actual good and compelling argument, other then "Sonic '06 bad, sonic kissed a princess, give me views". Which to be fair, that's what this video gave me vibes off.

This is a joke I've seen elsewhere years ago. Either it crossed Yahtzee's path and he decided to adapt it into his script or he got the same brain cells firing as the others who made similar jokes previously.

Nah I count 2016 as another time they killed him because of sonic boom’s terrible development and then after that sonic team dropped sonic forces

Didn't they have this whole spiel about him being killed in the opening of Forces? I mean, he was alive again pretty quickly, but would that count?

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer oh he’s talking about when he dies in game

If Yahtzee was hired to find the person who killed Sonic, he would do so with incredible vigor and efficiency. He would track down the killer, just to high five them for a job well done.

@@vigorouslethargy That's the Harrier du bois I know.

(me) What is the name of fursona for an animal that doesn't have fur; like a dolphin. (higher brain) rugby tackles the idea of googling that.

​@@dannybeane2069 It probably depends on the type of animal that lacks fur since I know--thakfully only in passing--reptile fursona people tend to be called "scalies". So I assume that aquatic creatures have their own or three given there's so many different aquatic creatures (despite humanity's best attempts to RU-vid over the ocean). But, uh, yeah, *don't* search engine any of that. I imagine the inflation "joke" in this video was actually Yahztee's dead-serious lament, just without bothering to change tone.

Dolphins really love the sea and sailors.

​@@dannybeane2069 usually it's just fursona, but scalie is a common name as well.

@@dannybeane2069 Blubb-ersona?

honestly its more like the opposite of that. Sega gave people free steak and he's complaining that it's not rubber.

Not everything is canon, thats just a joke tweet.

@@AzafuseKingTora I get that's a joke but it would also imply the Archie Sonic continuity is canon, along with Sonic X and other media. Essentially though, for the sake of Murder of Sonic The Hedgehog, it is canon since it doesn't really contradict anything set up from previous titles. Sonic is a very status quo reliant series.

Even the people with priority questions are having to get in line.

They've never done one? Jesus, that sounds like an obvious thing to try to me.

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer They might have, I'm not sure. Since I haven't heard about one recently and the modern hybrid rhythm game is pretty recent. There might be a DDR clone (Mario has an old DDR clone).

@@TheSmart-CasualGamer The closest thing Sonic has ever come to a rhythm game is the submarine minigame (Deep Typhoon) in Sonic Rush Adventure, and the execution of special moves in Sonic Chronicles (both DS games weirdly enough).

Eh, it's starting to wear a bit thin. "Sonic the Hedgehog fucking sucks and needs to die" was the in-thing circa 2007-2014 for a lot of legitimate reasons- I'm certainly still baffled that Sonic as a franchise survived at all past 2009 when you'd think Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic 06, and Sonic Unleashed would be a 1-2-3 KO punch that'd kill any franchise. But by 2023, it's clear the fanbase it's pretty well-rooted and defensive and a lot of the negative air towards the series has itself become the meme. Like for Christ's sakes, I recently saw one curmudgeon complain about Sonic's friends as if Sonic 06 was the most recent Sonic game to come out and they were helplessly forced to spend 90% of the game playing as Charmy the Bee and SIlver the Hedgehog, and he got downvoted into oblivion because, besides Sonic Boom and Forces DLC, the last game that even gave you the _option_ to play as any of Sonic's friends _was_ Sonic 06- 17 years ago. It's like, if you're that obsessed about a bunch of NPC side characters in a platformer series that haven't even been playable in _multiple_ console generations, I'd hate to see your opinions on Luigi or Princess Peach. And do you remember when G4 came back and immediately ragged on Sonic, and they got trashed _hard_ for it, whereas if they ran that same segment in 2012, it'd probably have been one of their more popular segments. My rambling, incoherent point being that "Sonic is terrible, so I'll slag off every aspect of this Sonic game from his shitty friends to his shitty gameplay without any second thought because it's Sonic" might be true, but the pendulum is no longer in that camp's favor and it's started coming off as a dated meme by reviewers who forgot it's not 2009 anymore. Edit: Actually, I was wrong. The last game that gave you the option was Mania. And most people tend to regard it as a great game, which kind of proves' fans' longstanding point that it was never the side-characters themselves that was the problem. But that's a post for another day.

@@Yuli_Ban You are the exact kind of person Yahtzee is talking about when he talks about Sonic fans “Sonic bad” is definitely still a popular sentiment, the pendulum is definitely still on that side for a lot of people even though the second movie was pretty good and turned some people around on Sonic. Saying it’s not is just coping, I hate to tell you.

@@duckquack2000 Did you literally just "No U" me??

@@duckquack2000 I have seen so many of your comments, and it seems that with all of them, you are trying so hard to defend this video and make an attempt to talk bad about Sonic in anything. And yes, we get it. This guy doesn't like Sonic, many people don't or don't care, and he is allowed to voice his opinions. But that doesn't mean we are not allowed to voice ours, and i think this video is not good at all and misses the entire point of the game, he is clearly in the minority here. And you can't deny that Sonic is in a great place right now, with 2022 easily being the best year for the franchise. Frontiers was a good game, and they made a charming and good visual novel for the fans. People still care about these things.

​@@dimitridsmoreira "Frontiers was a good game" Yeah if your standards are abysmal.